This is an analysis of The Skater by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts.
My glad feet shod with the glittering steel
I was the god of the wingèd heel.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ff gg ff hh ff ii ee jjXff
- Stanza lengths: 10,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Metre: 1111001001 11010010001 010011101 011100111 1011101111 1010100111 11011111 1110100111 0011100101 110101101 1100111101 1010100111 0101001001 10100110111 1010011101 1101011011 1011101101 1010111111 0110101101 1100110101 10100111 1100100101 1010110101 1100100101 10011101 0010111111 1111110101 0010100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
my
Anaphora
the
